A Democratic congressman has proposed convening a special committee of psychiatrists and other doctors whose job would be to determine if President Donald Trump is fit to serve in the Oval Office.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who also teaches constitutional law at American University, has predictably failed to attract any Republicans to his banner.

But the U.S. Constitution’s 25th Amendment does allow for a majority of the president’s cabinet, or ‘such other body as Congress may by law provide,’ to decide if an Oval Office occupant is unable to carry out his duties – and then to put it to a full congressional vote.

Vice President Mike Pence would also have to agree, which could slow down the process – or speed it up if he wanted the levers of power for himself.

The 25th Amendment has been around since shortly after the John F. Kennedy assassination, but Congress has never formed its own committee in case it’s needed to judge a president’s mental health.

Raskin’s bill would allow the four Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate to each choose a psychiatrist and another doctor. Then each party would add a former statesman – like a retired president or vice president.

The final group of 10 would meet and choose an 11th member, who would become the committee’s chairman.

Once the group is officially seated, the House and Senate could direct it through a joint resolution to conduct an actual examination of the president ‘to determine whether the president is incapacitated, either mentally or physically,’ according to the Raskin bill.

And if the president refuses to participate, the bill dictates, that ‘shall be taken into consideration by the commission in reaching a conclusion.’

Under the 25th Amendment, such a committee – or the president’s cabinet – can notify Congress in writing that a sitting president is unfit. In either case the vice president must concur, and he would immediately become ‘acting president.’

Presidents have voluntarily transferred their powers to vice presidents in the past, including when they are put under anesthesia for medical procedures.

Raskin’s bill would allow the four Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate to each choose a psychiatrist and another doctor. Then each party would add a former statesman – like a retired president or vice president.

The final group of 10 would meet and choose an 11th member, who would become the committee’s chairman.

Once the group is officially seated, the House and Senate could direct it through a joint resolution to conduct an actual examination of the president ‘to determine whether the president is incapacitated, either mentally or physically,’ according to the Raskin bill.

And if the president refuses to participate, the bill dictates, that ‘shall be taken into consideration by the commission in reaching a conclusion.’

Under the 25th Amendment, such a committee – or the president’s cabinet – can notify Congress in writing that a sitting president is unfit. In either case the vice president must concur, and he would immediately become ‘acting president.’

Presidents have voluntarily transferred their powers to vice presidents in the past, including when they are put under anesthesia for medical procedures.

In the case of Raskin’s plan, the Constitution holds that both houses of Congress would hold a vote within three weeks.

If two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate agreed that the president couldn’t discharge his duties, he would be dismissed.

Raskin’s plan could have a fatal flaw, however: Legal scholars tend to agree that when the Constitution’s framers first provided for the replacement of a president with an ‘inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the Office,’ they weren’t talking about mere eccentricities.

And when the 25th Amendment was sent to the states for ratification in 1965, the Senate agreed that ‘inability’ meant that a president was ‘unable to make or communicate his decisions’ and suffered from a ‘mental debility’ rendering him ‘unable or unwilling to make any rational decision.’

So far two dozen members of the House, all Democrats, have signed on to cosponsor the bill.

‘The 25th Amendment is utilized when a president is perceived to be incompetent or unable to do his or her job,’ she said.

The Democrats’ Desperation has been building ever since the night that their dream to change the “Shining City Upon the Hill” into a Socialist Paradise was shattered…when America’s Heartland elected Donald J. Trump as our 45th President.

The fact that average Americans stood up on our hind legs and thwarted the planned ascension of Hillary Clinton to the “throne”, caused a mass break from reality among the Democrats that this country has never witnessed before.

Once it settled in to the deep dark recesses of the Hive-Mind that is the Far Left of America’s Political Spectrum that there was a new sheriff in town, the Washington Elite immediately started hurling bodily waste at the American people, like Gorillas throwing it at zoo visitors, in the form of Fake News Stories being broadcast and published incessantly, specifically designed to end the Presidency of Donald J. Trump before he would be able to fulfill his Campaign Promises.

For you see, boys and girls, if President Trump is able to accomplish all that he has promised, America will be able to dig itself out of the hole that the poor stewardship of a Democrat Socialist President and a Special interest-Controlled Democrat-led Congress has left our country in.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, as the past couple of weeks have shown, the problem with trying to convince people to help you remove a sitting President through the use of Fake News is that, in this age of New Technology, pretty soon you will be captured in the act of making up an “exclusive” or just like Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) in “A Face in the Crowd”, your mask will slip and your true nature will be revealed to the public.

By calling for President Trump to be removed from office because he is “unfit to serve”, the Democrats have overplayed their hand, dropping their masks to reveal an image of Rosie O’Donnell nekkid [that’s when you have no clothes on and you’re up to sumpin’] and having a bad hair day.

Ugly isn’t the word for it.

The Democratic Party and their minions in the MSM and on Social Media, have allowed their out-of-control desperation to ruin any credibility they had left.

At this point, they have as much chance of gaining control of Congress and the White House, as Miley Cyrus does of regaining her virginity.

Their words and actions have guaranteed that they will remain the minority Political Party and Political Ideology in America for a long time.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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